Radio Stations

It's been one of those weeks where radio stations have been re-branding and reorganizing.  I dug one of the stations mostly.  Think their biggest problem was that they played the same core set of songs excessively.  Seemed like you would hear the same songs several times in a given day.  Top 10 sorts of songs.  "Hey Soul Sister" by Train being the evil song of the summer.  I'd swear I heard the song 5 or more times a day and that's not counting the other places playing that song. 

Not that I'm a radio genius or anything but I'd figure you'd want to play the songs enough for it to be in people minds.  Enough for a line or two or even some of the melody to be stuck in the people heads.  Just as they are forgetting you play it again.  They could call in or check the website for what was played.   The people would then proceed to go out and by the song on iTunes or something or the actual cd and listen ad nauseam. 

I'm sure there is a formula or algorithm for optimal play rate for popular songs. 

"Windows Installer Service could not be accessed"

Lately I've been running loads of updates for all sorts of fun vulnerabilities. One of the goofy errors that I've come across is that the "Windows Installer Service could not be accessed" and your software, especially your MS updates, do not want to install. Seems to be XP specific thus far. Probably rare in the "real world", but you never know what you might turn up. So I've found that running your command prompt in XP:

Unregister and re-register the Windows Installer

1. MSIEXEC /UNREGISTER
2. MSIEXEC /REGSERVER
3. Try your Windows Installer-based application again.

from http://support.microsoft.com/kb/319624.

-Isaac

cout << "Hello, World!!!!";

Type your message here. Are you sure you would like to do that? That action requires administrator privileges.

First post. Gotta start somewhere and and I'm sure the title is familiar to most geeks/nerds, what every you may call yourselves. Guess my purpose, at least for this blog, is to find creative solutions to ordinary problems or even not so ordinary problems. Sounds easy enough but I'm up for a challenge. So give me your challenge, something that needs a creative solution. I will post solutions as I discover it or as someone passes along to me.

So let the challenge begin :)

-Isaac